Eulogy

 

It's an honour to speak about Carrie today.

 

I remember vividly the dress she wore for her birthday party in 2006. It was a backless mint green floater and I thought she looked just like Kiera Knightley in 'Atonement' except more beautiful. Her eye liner was blue - a little unusual you might say but I thought it an elegant contrast. She always was inventive with her eye liner. To see her again in that dress would mean the world to me and I guess to everyone here in this room. Especially those who were there that night. The moment she entered, everybody stared. If I will remember her in any moment, it will be that one. All eyes upon her.

 

Of course that wasn't her greatest achievement. I'm sure everyone in this room can recall the way she did her hair for her mum's 50th. It was magnificent she had done it herself.  Certainly she started a trend I think largely due to using it as her profile picture for so long. Straight from 'Vogue' She certainly made you a proud mother that day.

 

And how sad it is now that her beautiful home is now lying empty. That white free-standing l-shaped chromed legged couch now remains untouched, standing as a statue for all Carrie stood for. Her wardrobe, a wonderful assortment of everything Carrie was, hangs unguarded.

Her Birkin bag- I can see you nodding- how could I not mention her beautiful Birkin? She worked so hard for that. I was with her the day she finally got it….excuse me…I'm sorry…I can still see her face. We had our picture taken outside the shop and I was - extremely- proud to have shared that moment with her.

 

We are fortunate to have left thousands of photographs from which we can remember Carrie's adoring face. Fortunate she'll be forever immortalised within their frames. Fortunate she's wearing the same smile on every single one. I'm sorry- excuse me.